Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Even through a 15-year civil war, Lebanon never defaulted on its debts. Now that's looking

dangerously close. As the International Monetary Fund swoops in to talk restructuring, we take

a look at what's behind the deep economic crisis. And if you want to attend Norway's

Ice Music Festival, you better dress warmly.

It averages minus 10 degrees Celsius.

We pay a visit to hear the haunting compositions performed on instruments made from ice.

First up, though.

In 2016, Britain voted to leave the European Union.

Let June the 23rd go down in our history as our Independence Day. It was a choice that could yet lead to independence of a different kind.

A UK insight the EU will no longer be a reality.

It is time to win Scotland's independence.

Since the Brexit vote, the question of Scotland's future has grabbed the

headlines. But as Ireland's Parliament meets today, for the first time since a general election

earlier this month, another secession is no longer as unlikely as it once seemed. For a long time,

Irish unification was seen as a possibility, but not a particularly realistic one.

Hamish Beryl is our public policy correspondent.

That has changed over the past few years, and there's a number of factors that have come together

to mean that grown numbers of people think it could now even happen in the next decade or so.

A United Ireland might be on the horizon after a hundred years of division.

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